Author, Journalist, Non-Profit Founder

Lee van der Voo is an award-winning investigative and environmental journalist. Her work has appeared in ProPublica, The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, The Daily Beast, Reuters, The Atlantic, High Country News and others. Lee’s reporting has been supported by significant awards and fellowships, including the Logan Nonfiction fellowship, the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and the Lizzie Grossman Grant for Environmental Health Reporting.

Her first book The Fish Market chronicled the privatization of the sea in the name of sustainable seafood. It was the 2018 winner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction.

Her second book As the World Burns  observed a year in the life of the 21 youth plaintiffs who sued the U.S. government over climate change in the milestone lawsuit, Juliana v. United States.

Lee is deeply involved in nonprofit journalism and is a co-founder of Uplift Local, an innovative newsroom that closes information gaps in underserved communities in Oregon and Washington. Lee serves as a board member and a co-executive director at Uplift. She previously helped to launch the award-winning investigations program at Civil Eats and is the former managing director of the nonprofit newsroom InvestigateWest.